Surprise Attack on Cloud Village (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

Under the cover of night, in the Land of Lightning.

Atop a certain mountain peak.

Hyuga Lan wore a black robe and the white mask symbolizing The Fool. Beside him stood the Third Kazekage Human Puppet, disguised behind a Gale Mask.

In the distance, beneath the clouds amidst the mountain ranges, stood a ninja village—the Cloud Village.

Through the insight of his Tenseigan, Hyuga Lan saw that the perimeter of the Cloud Village was sealed by an impenetrable detection barrier.

Under these circumstances, sneaking into the Cloud Village without a sound was unrealistic.

However, such things could not stump him.

Hyuga Lan placed his hand on the shoulder of the Third Kazekage Human Puppet, injecting a massive amount of Tenseigan chakra into its body.

The Third Kazekage Human Puppet, already imbued with a certain degree of sentience, saw its eyes begin to shimmer with golden light—a sign of heightened intelligence. Furthermore, bolstered by the Tenseigan chakra, the puppet's Magnet Release: Iron Sand power was significantly enhanced.

Feeling the aura radiating from the amplified Third Kazekage Human Puppet, Hyuga Lan nodded in satisfaction.

"Go, draw everyone away..."

Receiving Hyuga Lan's command, the Third Kazekage Human Puppet channeled its Magnet Release power, manifesting a pair of Iron Sand wings behind its back. With a flap of these wings, it soared rapidly into the distance.

Watching the figure of the Third Kazekage Human Puppet recede, Hyuga Lan began to wait quietly in place.

Inside the Cloud Village.

Within the sensory division responsible for the village's barrier, a man wearing a helmet stood up abruptly.

"Bad news, something is flying toward the village.

The intruder is moving at an incredible speed.

This... this chakra signature, damn it, it's an enemy attack! It's an enemy attack! Quickly, go notify Lady Yugito."

Just as the members of the sensory division were about to move to notify the high command, a piercing sound of wind being torn apart echoed from the sky outside.

A black pillar made of iron sand, two meters in diameter and nearly twenty meters long, descended from the heavens, crashing straight toward the Cloud Village's Raikage Building.

Yugito, who was currently stationed at the Raikage Building, naturally noticed the anomaly in the sky. When she saw the iron pillar falling with the force of ten thousand tons, her pupils constricted, and a sense of lethal crisis surged in her heart.

Without time to ponder the identity of the attacker, she hurriedly ordered everyone to evacuate the Raikage Building immediately.

She herself quickly entered the Tailed Beast Cloak state and leaped onto the roof of the Raikage Building. Watching the falling iron pillar, she hesitated for only a moment before channeling her Tailed Beast Cloak, manifesting two giant hands to strike at the pillar.

When the giant hands formed from Tailed Beast chakra collided with the iron pillar, a piercing screech of friction erupted.

Under Yugito's desperate exertion, the trajectory of the giant iron sand pillar shifted. It narrowly grazed the Raikage Building and slammed heavily into the ground, creating a thunderous boom.

As the pillar struck, a massive cloud of thick smoke rose, obscuring all vision.

Yugito, standing within the smoke, twitched her ears as she heard a figure descending from the sky. The enemy had appeared.

Yugito channeled her Tailed Beast Cloak to form a giant hand and swept it forward with force, the resulting hurricane blowing away the surrounding dust and smoke.

Before her eyes stood the giant black iron pillar, embedded deep into the earth. Standing proudly atop the pillar was a strange figure wearing a Gale Mask and a heavy black robe.

Iron sand powder continuously flaked off the giant black pillar, gathering around the mysterious man in the Gale Mask as if the sand were guarding him.

This... this is Magnet Release: Iron Sand?

Damn it, could this guy be the Third Kazekage who disappeared so mysteriously?

Why would he attack our Cloud Village?

Because the characteristics of Magnet Release: Iron Sand were too distinct, Yugito suspected the person before her was the Third Kazekage the moment she saw him.

And she wasn't entirely wrong; the one wearing the Gale Mask was indeed the Third Kazekage Human Puppet. At this moment, it had been activated by Hyuga Lan's Tenseigan power and imbued with a massive amount of Tenseigan chakra.

The goal was to use it to draw fire, allowing Hyuga Lan to sneak into the Cloud Village unnoticed and search for what he needed.

Therefore, the Third Kazekage Human Puppet had only one mission: to cause chaos in the Cloud Village.

"Do you think wearing a mask can hide your identity, you bastard?

Little do you know, this Magnet Release of yours has completely exposed you. Third Kazekage, if you don't give us an explanation today, I believe that when the Raikage returns, he will certainly go to your Sand Village to demand one."

Facing Yugito's threat, the Third Kazekage Human Puppet remained completely indifferent.

It waved its hands, and the giant iron sand pillar was severed cleanly at the waist.

The upper half of the pillar flew high into the sky, decomposing into various cubic shapes.

The lower half of the pillar sank into the ground, eventually merging into the earth.

Clap.

The Third Kazekage Human Puppet pressed its hands together.

As chakra surged, the iron sand cubes in the sky began to collide with one another, sprouting sharp spikes and iron cones from their surfaces.

On the ground below, the earth trembled as black iron spikes and cones began to erupt outward.

In an instant, iron spikes spread across both the sky and the earth, as if trapping Yugito in an inescapable net.

This technique was the strongest move the Third Kazekage Human Puppet could unleash: Magnet Release: Iron Sand World Method!

Yugito stared at the Third Kazekage Human Puppet, which had launched its ultimate technique to finish her off without uttering a single word. After a brief moment of shock, she reacted instantly.

She began to weave through the world of the Magnet Release: Iron Sand World Method, relying on her agile speed and footwork as she searched for a way to escape.

Yugito, capable of entering the Tailed Beast Cloak state, possessed incredible speed. The Two-Tails' inherent attributes provided a significant boost to her velocity, and since the Third Kazekage Human Puppet was, in the end, only a puppet, its limited sentience was insufficient to trap an enemy as formidable as her.

Yugito naturally realized this as well; bolstered by her speed, she actually managed to find a flaw in the Iron Sand World Method and skillfully escaped.

However, while Yugito could escape, the Anbu members from the Cloud Village who had also been trapped within the Iron Sand World Method were killed one by one by the iron spikes, skewered like hedgehogs in a gruesome display of death.

Seeing this scene, Yugito burned with rage. She no longer cared whether her opponent was the Third Kazekage; daring to attack her village meant only one path: death.

Gazing at the Third Kazekage Human Puppet hovering in the air, Yugito opened her mouth, and a massive amount of chakra condensed before her, forming a black sphere of chakra—the Tailed Beast Bomb.

Without the slightest hesitation, once the Tailed Beast Bomb appeared and locked onto the Third Kazekage Human Puppet, Yugito fired it directly.

Facing the incoming Tailed Beast Bomb, the Third Kazekage Human Puppet knew it could not withstand the blast and chose to dodge to the side.

But just as it moved out of the way, the flying Tailed Beast Bomb detonated.

BOOM!

It was as if a small mushroom cloud had appeared in the night sky...